.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 308 125
Rank change year-on-year +49 -183 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 603 390 1,959
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 0.99% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.00% 5.00% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 575 328 1,808
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,875 £38,084
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,100 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,616 7,795 18,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.44% 19.76% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,560 5,233 14,586
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -9 137 £55,000 -8.33% 42
South East +59 130 £55,000 +10.00% 46
London -63 90 £85,000 +6.25% 52
Midlands +33 89 £55,000 -8.33% 20
East of England +50 82 £66,250 +20.45% 17
North West +14 71 £55,000 -8.33% 20
South West -13 71 £52,500 -12.50% 13
East Midlands +12 45 £55,000 +4.76% 10
West Midlands -3 44 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North East -6 44 £65,000 +44.44% 14
Yorkshire -49 22 £55,000 -8.33% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.33%) IIS
3 5 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) DNN
5 1 (0.17%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.17%) Immediacy CMS
5 1 (0.17%) Kentico
5 1 (0.17%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Magento
1 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 442 (73.30%) Azure
2 136 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
3 94 (15.59%) AWS
4 84 (13.93%) GitHub
5 73 (12.11%) Azure AI
6 69 (11.44%) GitHub Copilot
7 51 (8.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 46 (7.63%) SaaS
9 41 (6.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 41 (6.80%) Power Platform
10 39 (6.47%) Serverless
11 25 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
11 25 (4.15%) Power Automate
11 25 (4.15%) PowerApps
12 24 (3.98%) Azure Functions
13 22 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (3.15%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (3.15%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.64%) Internet
2 6 (1.00%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.33%) Firewall
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) Modbus
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (43.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 202 (33.50%) MongoDB
3 145 (24.05%) SQL Server
4 80 (13.27%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.64%) Power BI
6 15 (2.49%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.32%) MySQL
8 9 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.00%) Redis
11 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.83%) GIS
11 5 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (4.98%) Git
2 9 (1.49%) JIRA
3 7 (1.16%) GitLab
4 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.50%) Vite
6 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.33%) NUnit
6 2 (0.33%) webpack
7 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.17%) MSI
7 1 (0.17%) MSTest
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 89 (14.76%) Finance
2 50 (8.29%) Social Skills
3 29 (4.81%) Games
4 28 (4.64%) Advertising
5 21 (3.48%) Marketing
5 21 (3.48%) Retail
6 19 (3.15%) Banking
7 11 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.49%) Automotive
9 8 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.33%) Front Office
9 8 (1.33%) Law
10 6 (1.00%) Legal
10 6 (1.00%) Music Industry
11 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.83%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.66%) Back Office
12 4 (0.66%) Electronics
12 4 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 481 (79.77%) Developer
2 337 (55.89%) .NET Developer
3 108 (17.91%) Senior
4 104 (17.25%) Software Developer
5 64 (10.61%) C# Developer
5 64 (10.61%) Senior Developer
6 54 (8.96%) C# .NET Developer
7 48 (7.96%) Lead
8 47 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 45 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (4.81%) Lead Developer
10 29 (4.81%) Senior Software Developer
11 27 (4.48%) .NET Software Developer
12 25 (4.15%) .NET Software Engineer
13 23 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (3.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 20 (3.32%) C# Software Developer
16 19 (3.15%) Azure Developer
17 18 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 603 (100.00%) .NET
2 318 (52.74%) ASP.NET
3 252 (41.79%) ASP.NET Core
4 148 (24.54%) React
5 140 (23.22%) HTML
6 139 (23.05%) Entity Framework
7 138 (22.89%) CSS
8 131 (21.72%) Blazor
9 118 (19.57%) RESTful
10 113 (18.74%) Vue
11 110 (18.24%) AngularJS
12 106 (17.58%) .NET Framework
13 104 (17.25%) ASP.NET Web API
14 95 (15.75%) Node.js
15 73 (12.11%) ML.NET
16 63 (10.45%) LINQ
17 49 (8.13%) REST
18 40 (6.63%) JSON
19 21 (3.48%) Microsoft Graph
20 20 (3.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.29%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.16%) Hedge funds
4 13 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 12 (1.99%) Digital TV
6 11 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.82%) Sports Betting
7 10 (1.66%) iPhone
7 10 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.49%) Social Network
9 7 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.16%) BBC
9 7 (1.16%) Social Media
10 6 (1.00%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.83%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.99%) VMS
2 10 (1.66%) Android
3 8 (1.33%) Windows
4 4 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (56.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 269 (44.61%) Agile
3 183 (30.35%) CI/CD
4 167 (27.69%) DevOps
5 129 (21.39%) Microservices
6 98 (16.25%) AI
7 93 (15.42%) Machine Learning
8 91 (15.09%) Software Engineering
9 90 (14.93%) Multithreading
10 62 (10.28%) OO
11 54 (8.96%) SDLC
12 52 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (7.96%) Analytics
14 47 (7.79%) Scrum
14 47 (7.79%) TDD
14 47 (7.79%) User Experience
15 46 (7.63%) Containerisation
16 41 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
16 41 (6.80%) MVC
17 38 (6.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 559 (92.70%) C#
2 365 (60.53%) SQL
3 176 (29.19%) JavaScript
4 149 (24.71%) TypeScript
5 36 (5.97%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.99%) Python
7 11 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.66%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.66%) Bash
10 4 (0.66%) Java
10 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.50%) PHP
11 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.17%) C++
12 1 (0.17%) F#
Qualifications
1 39 (6.47%) Degree
2 19 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (0.83%) AWS Certification
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (0.83%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.48%) QA
2 13 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.33%) GDPR
3 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.33%) ITGC
3 2 (0.33%) SLA
3 2 (0.33%) WCAG
4 1 (0.17%) NCSC
4 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 133 (22.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 124 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 329 (54.56%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.64%) Facebook
3 25 (4.15%) Google
4 19 (3.15%) Adobe
5 11 (1.82%) YouTube
6 7 (1.16%) Apple
6 7 (1.16%) Sony
6 7 (1.16%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.66%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.66%) Workday
8 3 (0.50%) Splunk
9 2 (0.33%) Foundry
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle
9 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.33%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.17%) Alterian
10 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.17%) IBM
10 1 (0.17%) Reuters